Chuck Bryant

Yeah, I'm not sure if I buy that given what we now have sort of suspected about this being a provocation, which we'll get to.

But that sounds to me like, hey, let's tell him that, you know, it's a special tree.

Yeah, like he's like Pachul seemed like the kind who would just load you up on BS just to mess with you.

Yeah, so he called for even more reinforcements.

I think about 30 more North Korean guards showed up.

He ordered Captain Boniface to stop, but he turned his back on him, which I think was a pretty big insult on top of everything else.

And as the story goes, one of the American soldiers saw Pac take off his wristwatch and put it in his pocket, which is, I guess, akin to like Fonzie taking off his leather jacket.

Like, it's about to happen.

Right.

And tried to warn Boniface, but it was too late by that point, and Pac ordered the attack, basically, by saying, like, I think he said, kill the bastards, right?

Yeah, I saw a 1977 Army War College report on the incident, and that's what they said.

So I'm prone to believe them.

Yeah.

But he said it in Korean, obviously.

Right.

But right after that, the men attacked.

And actually, I saw Lieutenant Pak Chul assaulted Captain Boniface, who had, again, his back to Pak Chul.

He hit him with the karate chop in the back of his neck and dropped Captain Boniface

And very, very sadly, Captain Boniface never got to his feet again.

Like immediately he was set upon by five to six North Korean troops, just started being beaten by them.